Merry Christmas

December 24, and that is when we celebrate Christmas in Sweden. We have almost the same schedule every Christmas - before lunch is “free time”. This year mormor and morfar took us to Skalasand (a beach on Fårö, where we had a delicious picnic/fika. The weather was beautiful for a snow free Christmas! At 3pm is the yearly Donald Duck’s Christmas on TV and then Chrimas Dinner, Santa is coming and gift opening. This year we also made it to church before bed time. That was a nice addition.

Christmas “fika” at home.

Picnic at Skalasand.

Reading the gospel and coloring :-)

Watching Donald Duck’s Christmas. 

 Christmas dinner and “Beeping the cheese” :-)

The hosts :-)

Santa!!

Gift opening..

Christmas at church

A wonderful day with everything you could ask for!

Raukar and Elsie’s café

We cannot go to Fårö without visiting the Raukar. It was time, and we went to both Digerhuvud and Langhammars. We even stopped at fishing village Helgumannen. After our, somewhat freezing explorations, we stopped at Elsie’s cafe for some delicious, and very pretty, food!

DIGERHUVUD

HELGUMANNEN

LANGHAMMARS

HELGUMANNEN

LANGHAMMARS

ELSIE’S CAFE

Hunting for a Christmas tree

My experience is that Americans put up their Christmas tree as early as possible where as Swedes put it up close to Christmas. We normally decorated the day before Christmas (we celebrate on December 24) when I grew up, this year we did it a little earlier, December 21. First we had to find the tree… 

Ww found a few small ones…

… and one ”big” one.  The are no traditional Christmas trees on Fårö but the local trees are good, too :-)

Cutting down the tree…

Before being decorated…

Actually, Alex and I were not part of decorating the tree as we had dinner alone at restaurant Magasinet in Fårösund. It was so delicious!!

While we were gone this happened at the house…

Meeting Fårö Santa in the woods

Santa came to the woods of Fårö with his horses and served glögg, hot chocolate and ginger bread cookies :-)